The stock has rocketed as jaw-dropping discrepancies and other issues fly under shareholders' radar, including:

*HMNY’s CEO Ted Farnsworth served as president/CEO/CFO/sole director of Purple Beverage Company, a flat-lining stock. But HMNY's regulatory filings do not disclose this vital information to shareholders. TheStreetSweeper demands a correction.

*We’re also calling for HMNY to correct discrepancies in SEC filings – and preferably to issue a clarifying press release – regarding Mitch Lowe, CEO of MoviePass. People are buying HMNY stock partially because they think the chief executive of HMNY's acquisition co-founded Netflix. Lowe told TheStreetSweeper this notion is wrong.

*Lowe's experience as a director at SEC sanctioned Medbox needs to be disclosed in HMNY filings.

*The stock is heavily promoted via scores of tweets, including many from an apparent promoter who has been silent on Twitter for two years before suddenly tweeting about HMNY.

*Bugs have angered subscribers after the recent rollout of the new $9.95 pricing plan by MoviePass.

*MoviePass is under threat of lawsuit by the country's biggest movie theater. AMC also states the MoviePass plan is unsustainable and will lose money.

*Movie goers can find options for inexpensive movie theater experiences around every corner, from Groupon to Sam's Club.

Helios and Matheson Analytics (HMNY): Shaking Down Shareholders

by Sonya Colberg, Senior Editor, 9/20/2017 9:08:35 AM

Helios and Matheson Analytics (HMNY) is an information technology company hooked on acquiring unprofitable technology, which it then mercilessly promotes.

The New York company merged with Zone Acquisition in November 2016, which ignited additional losses.

The stock has rocketed by 90% and is now TheStreetSweeper sees a riskier investment than ever:

*Financial Fumes

HMNY has been running on fumes … $54.98 million in the red.

It’s burning $5 million in two quarters.

At the end of June, HMNY had just $1.4 million in available cash.

Here’s how dire the situation was, in management’s opinion:

“In management's opinion, there is substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern through one year after the issuance of the accompanying financial statements.”

To be sure, the 10-K offered investors little reason to sing. For starters, the filing reveals, this once-hot “coffee company” sells no coffee of its own at all. JAMN relies on a supplier based in frigid Canada – far away from the tropical Jamaican home of its co-founder Rohan Marley – to provide the company with an actual product to sell to its customers instead.

Back in April of 2010, JAMN inked a “supply and toll agreement” with Canterbury Coffee of British Columbia that gave it access to some brew. According to that agreement, JAMN relies on Canterbury to fulfill every role – save a minor one – normally satisfied by a firm that classifies itself as a coffee company. Canterbury purchases the coffee beans. It roasts them. And it then packages them in bags supplied by JAMN – the company’s only real product – for sale to the public.

Jammin Java (JAMN): Hot Stock ... Bitter Aftertaste?

by Janice Shell, 6/2/2011 10:30:25 AM

It’s time to wake up and smell the coffee! That’s exactly what Jammin Java (OTC: JAMN.OB), a heavily promotedcoffee company, and – for very different reasons – TheStreetSweeper would like investors to do.

CCME: Few Signs of Life at 'Healthy' Chinese Firm

* Editor's Note: This story has been republished with permission from The Financial Investigator. To access the original article, complete with links to back-up documents, click here.

In the maze of thronged and narrow streets that makes up Fujian province’s capital city of Fuzhou, a deft driver, if he’s willing–as all Chinese drivers apparently are–to nearly kill or injure vast numbers of his countrymen can take you to the foot of Dongjie street. There was little reason to be there save for its having the headquarters of a company called China MediaExpress Holdings (Nasdaq: CCME), an enterprise that seems to be able to weather allegations about its business that would have forced the share price collapse of a company five times its size. The attention of bulls and bears is not misplaced: In a mere four years as a public company, it has apparently come to dominate the ad placement market for leading multinational consumer products companies on a network of what it claims is more than 27,000 buses on Chinese airport and intercity routes.

Also, and this cannot be understated, hanging out on a sidewalk in Fujian–the sidewalks double as parking spots when the streets, which appeared to have been designed in the Han Dynasty, fill up–was not a viable option. There was also the matter of the world-class headache the Financial Investigator was developing from Fuzhou’s diabolical smell, an epic conflation of poor sewage treatment, air pollution and the smell of cabbage that made getting the hell off Dongjie street a matter of vital importance.

The Financial Investigator and his traveling companion for the trip, an American investor with extensive experience in China, decided to head upstairs despite our interview with the CFO having been cancelled at the last minute (with no explanation given.) We thought a quick tour of the offices and meeting a few other executives might open our eyes to a few things.

It did.

Though the language barrier was a little steep with the young receptionist–when we asked for writing paper, she provided Kleenex–we were in short order shown to their conference room and told to wait. It did not escape notice that pride of place in the conference room belonged to a framed certificate of participation from the Fall 2010 Rodman & Renshaw conference, the World Cup for reverse merger companies and the pumpers and touts who peddle them.

Eventually chief operating officer James Yu came down and after spending 30 minutes trying to understand who we were, concluded that giving us a tour wouldn’t hurt. Soon enough, his colleague, Vinne Ye–the chairman’s assistant–came out and took us around.

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